Consistent Performance Quotes

Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.

Always being champion, always being at the top every three days, playing great football - it's not that easy.

My work ethics have been the same whether it's in international cricket, first class, or even club cricket.

For some reason, I never get sick. I don't know why, but I just don't. I have never missed a day of work or practice.

When you come to a club like Liverpool, you need to perform straight away and consistently.

I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent.

Young players have to realise pretty quickly that it is not about one game, but how you perform over the whole season.

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.

I think when you're a very good defensive team you give yourself a chance every night, on the road, at home, it's a big factor and something to build on.

Whenever I have played a game of cricket, whether it is under-16, under-19, or State level, my approach has been the same.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Every single team that I've played for, every single person would tell you that I've given it everything every single day.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.

I think if you have a series for a long time, it's in some ways like being in a play with a long run - in that the character stays the same - and so you are constantly posed with the challenge of making it interesting and unique week after week, year after year.

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time.

I felt a ton of pressure in '08. A lot of great things were expected of me right out of the gate, and I brought some of that on myself with those great early results. But I wasn't a good enough player to make a run every fourth or fifth tournament. I wasn't as good a player as my ranking indicated.

As you get more experience out there, as you get more comfortable with the NBA system, the offense, the schemes, you begin to understand where you're going to get your looks from. And I think a big part of playing well is not having to look over your shoulder and just understanding that you're consistently be counted on.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

In Twenty20 it's not always about straight drives and high elbows. It's amazing how far you can hit the ball. I've always been able to hit the ball far but not consistently like I have in practice over here. I'm enjoying it so much.

We all have to go into the game and play hard, no days off, no possessions off and when we get a little lead don't get comfortable.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

In ECW, we couldn't have an off night.